Now that got me to thinking.. and then I got a idea to increase the "free" space. There's 332MB of foreign voices, 36.6MB of foreign text and 2.5MB of foreign help.. all for a total of 371.1MB that could be used.

So.. Why not save everything that's on the Garmin as backup files just in case. Then erase all the "non-US English" items and.. there you go. Instant 371mgs of usable free space.. when then applied to the 280mbs that's there already will give you a total of 591MB's.

When that's done, shouldn't you be able to "defrag" without causing any problems?

Glad I found this site.. and am looking forward to having a long happy marriage with y'all.

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Thu, 10/08/2009 - 5:43pm

charlesd45

7 years

Welcome to the site

Welcome to the site Nuvi1300WTGPS.I done the same thing a while back on my 265 and also removed some of the vehicles I would never use.You can always go back to webupdater or dashboard located in My Garmin page to reload the info.I did keep a backup also.

Defrag

GPS' don't need to be defragged as they have different allocation requirements. As well, solid state drive have a finite number of writes available to them (iPod's as an example). Backup, and then delete so you can reload them if necessary.

I removed all foreign voices

from my Nuvi 760 and it freed up a substantial amount of space. Couldn't see ANY reason to keep the foreign language files on the nuvi. I also swap vehicle files in and out depending on the season of the year (ie Holiday themed vehicles)